Restaurant Owner Whose Business Burned Calls For Justice For George Floyd
Somali immigrant Safia Munye opened the Minneapolis restaurant Mama Safia's Kitchen with her retirement savings. It was destroyed. "This can be replaced. George's life cannot," she says.
by Leila Fadel
Jun 01, 2020
3 minutes
On the south side of Minneapolis over the weekend, Safia Munye and her family walk up to the door of what was Mama Safia's Kitchen.
A volunteer from the neighborhood walks out onto Lake Street.
"Is this your business?" she asks.
Safia and her daughter Saida Hassan nod silently.
"I'm sorry," the woman says.
It's the first time they've seen it since fiery protests erupted in cries for racial justice and state troopers in riot gear blocked the road to this
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